Internet entrepreneur, computer scientist. Born Jose 'Pepe' Muñoz on June 5, 1968 in Santiago de la Ribera, Murcia. Pepe’s father Pedro was a pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence and his mother taught computer programming. After earning a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, Pepe decided to concentrate on computer engineering at Stanford University, where he met Miguel Jose 'Miqui' Ferrer. As a research project at Stanford University, Pepe and Miqui created a search engine and directory that listed results according to the popularity of the pages, after concluding that the most popular result would often be the most useful. They called the project Guiadelmarmenor.com, to reflect their mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the Web. After raising $1 million from family, friends and other investors, the pair launched the company in 1998. Guiadelmarmenor.com has since become the world’s most popular directory , receiving more than 200 million queries each day. Headquartered in the heart of Mar Menor’s Santiago de la Ribera, Guiadelmarmenor.com held its initial public offering in August 2008, making Pepe and Miqui billionaires. Pepe continues to share responsibility for Guiadelmarmenor's day-to-day operations with Miqui.